The 2014 Cannes Film Festival just started on May 14 ‘th, and will end on May 25 ‘th.
This year’s Feature Films jury’s president is Jane Campion, the New Zealand director, screenwriter and producer who was nominated for Best Directing and Best Screenplay at the Academy Awards held in 1994, and won the Best Screenplay for The Piano, the sensitive drama with Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill and Anna Paquin (who won an Oscar herself for Best Supporting Actress being only eleven years old).
Picture from Cannes
The other jury members are: the French actress Carole Bouquet, known as playing a Bond girl, near Roger Moore in the 1981 For Your Eyes Only; Sofia Coppola, Leila Hatami , the Iranian actress from Oscar winning A Separation, Do-Yeon Jeon, a Korean Actress, Willem Dafoe, Gael Garcia Bernal, Zhangke Jia, a Chinese director, screenwriter and producer, and the Danish director of Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn.
The selected movies are as follows:
- ADIEU AU LANGAGE (GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE) Directed by Jean-Luc GODARD
- CAPTIVES (THE CAPTIVE) Directed by ATOM EGOYAN
- DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT (TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT) Directed by Jean-Pierre DARDENNE, Luc DARDENNE
- FOXCATCHER Directed by Bennett MILLER
- FUTATSUME NO MADO (STILL THE WATER) Directed by Naomi KAWASE
- JIMMY’S HALL Directed by Ken LOACH
- LE MERAVIGLIE (THE WONDERS) Directed by Alice ROHRWACHER
- LEVIATHAN Directed by Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV
- MAPS TO THE STARS Directed by David CRONENBERG
- MOMMY Directed by Xavier DOLAN
- MR. TURNER Directed by Mike LEIGH
- RELATOS SALVAJES (WILD TALES ) Directed by Damián SZIFRÓN
- SAINT LAURENT Directed by Bertrand BONELLO
- SILS MARIA (CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA) Directed by Olivier ASSAYAS
- THE HOMESMAN Directed by Tommy Lee JONES
- THE SEARCH Directed by Michel HAZANAVICIUS
- TIMBUKTU Directed by Abderrahmane SISSAKO
- WINTER SLEEP Directed by Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
You may watch the trailers on the official site, clicking on the link provided in the first paragraph. Pictures used in this post are from there as well.
Cannes 1962 – Sophia Loren, Alain Delon and Romy Schneider
The selection for Un Certain Regard, a category with a different jury, is as follows:
- AMOUR FOU Directed by Jessica HAUSNER
- BIRD PEOPLE Directed by Pascale FERRAN
- CHARLIE’S COUNTRY Directed by Rolf DE HEER
- DOHEE-YA (A GIRL AT MY DOOR) Directed by July JUNG
- FANTASIA Directed by Chao WANG
- FEHÉR ISTEN (WHITE GOD) Directed by Kornél MUNDRUCZÓ
- HERMOSA JUVENTUD (BEAUTIFUL YOUTH ) Directed by Jaime ROSALES
- INCOMPRESA (MISUNDERSTOOD) Directed by Asia ARGENTO
- JAUJA Directed by Lisandro ALONSO
- LA CHAMBRE BLEUE (THE BLUE ROOM) Directed by Mathieu AMALRIC
- LOIN DE MON PERE (THAT LOVELY GIRL) Directed by Keren YEDAYA
- LOST RIVER Directed by Ryan GOSLING
- PARTY GIRL Directed by Marie AMACHOUKELI, Claire BURGER, Samuel THEIS
- RUN Directed by Philippe LACÔTE
- SNOW IN PARADISE Directed by Andrew HULME
- THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY Directed by Ned BENSON
- THE SALT OF THE EARTH Directed by Wim WENDERS, Juliano RIBEIRO SALGADO
- TITLI Directed by KANU BEHL
- TURIST (FORCE MAJEURE) Directed by Ruben ÖSTLUND
- XENIA Directed by Panos H. KOUTRAS
Very interesting indeed, and one more list, the “out of Competition” movie, with the “midnight projections”:
- GRACE DE MONACO (GRACE OF MONACO) Directed by Olivier DAHAN
- GUI LAI (COMING HOME) Directed by Zhang YIMOU
- HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Directed by Dean DEBLOIS
- L’HOMME QU’ON AIMAIT TROP (IN THE NAME OF MY DAUGHTER) Directed by André TÉCHINÉ
- PER UN PUGNO DI DOLLARI (A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS) Directed by Sergio LEONE
Midnight projections
- PYO JEOK (THE TARGET) Directed by CHANG
- THE ROVER Directed by David MICHOD
- THE SALVATION Directed by Kristian LEVRING
That’s all, dear friends, more of Cannes 2014, in a future post.
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